THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1932,
"HOW TO DRIVE A CAR"
A Valuable Book.
Although skill in handling a car on the road is acquired mainly by practical experience, a consider- ablo amount of useful and, in some cases, essential knowledge can be obtained from the careful perusal of a suitable text book.
BETTER MANNERS ON THE ROAD.
By Sir Malcolm Campbell.
If one were to take a plebiscito up. This may sound rather like of motorlats of long experience on trying to teach grandmother,to the question of road manners, I suck eggs, but my remarks think a majority would agree that intended for the novice. these have improved very greatly during the past two or three years.
Don't Be Kerb-shy,
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The 12th edition of "How to
At the time when the fall in car Keep as close to the near-alde Drive a Car" has just been publish- ed, and the 13 chapters of which prices brought motoring within edge of the road as traffic condi- it is composed deal exhaustively reach of the million and the roads tions pormit, leaving plenty
of room for vehicles to pass in with every aspect of car driving. were invaded by a new army Written and revised by the staff drivers who had had no previous either direction. One of the com- oxperience of controlling vehicles monest offenders against the code of any kind, the standard of road of good manners is the kerb-shy manners fell appallingly low. This driver, who apparently is pro- was only natural, for you cannot foundly unhappy unless he has six expect the totally inexperienced feet of road between his car and driver to shape like an old hand the left edge.
all at once.
How They Learn,
He is possibly not a much to blame as some of us think. We all know that from the driving
of The Motor, the information may bo rogarded as authoritative and accurate.
Special interest attaches to the chapter dealing with legal matters in which the more important motoring laws are explained in an easily comprehensible manner.
"How to Drive a Car" is obtain- able from the publishers, Temple It might be thought that, with a seat of any car the near side odgo to of the road seems very much Press Ltd., 5-15, Rosebery Avenue, Isteady flow of new recruits London, E. C. 1, or from the lead-motoring, the general standard closer than it is, and in the case ing newsagents and book-sellers. would remain stationary, because of the modern low-hung body, in among them must be a number which the near wing cannot be without any previous knowledge jacan, this is greatly accentuated. or experience. That however, is Only experience will show that when one thinks the car is close to not ao.
the verge it is in fact four or five feet away.
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Cars of this charneter should be cara had never, or seldom, been in n motor-car before. But us the fitted with the light ball-sur- number of cars increases a greater mounted standards attached to the number of people are becoming ac-front wings which give the driver quainted, as passengers, with the something to go upon. I hate customs of the road, and are thus them, but they are undeniably une- being prepared for the time when ful to the novice. they will become drivers. As a
Sound your horn on all necee- consequence, "we expect a progrensary occasions, but do not overdo sive improvement in road Tam- nera, and the expectation is fui-it. The driver who hoots in and out of season either suffers from nerves and ought not to be driving But, even allowing for all that, for he is one of those inconsiderate I never take the road without see-people who want a monopoly ing examples of bad and in-the rond and use their horns as a considerate driving which demon-signal for everything clac to get strate that there is room for fur-off it.
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CALIFORNIA'S NEW SIERRA WAY.”
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SEQUOIA
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Climbing to a helght of 10,000 feet, California's "Sierra Way," through the heart of the state and connecting many national parks, will cover the general course shown on the map above. In the upper picture is shown Huntington Lake, Ride trip from the Sierra Way. Lower photo shows Kaiser
Crest, near which the new highway will run. Fresno, Calif., Aug. 10. height, an unrivalled view can be The famed Appian Way, the had of forests, woodlands, mea- road constructed by ancient Ro-dows, lakes and streams, and ple- counterpart in the United States in
mans 2200 years ago, will have its turesque mountain villages,
Lake Almanor, one of the
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Its shining sheet of blue Sierra at an elevation of about
ther improvement. I still act The horu is intended to let drivers cutting in"-a most dis-othera know that you are coming, courteous as well as dangerous
so that they may exercise proper practice. I constantly encounter! the driver who will hang on to the caution. It is not a "clear the crown of a narrow road and drive road" signal, although some seem the Sierra Way, a road now underworld's largest artificial bodies of water is 6300 feet above sen level, 10,000 feat. everybody else down to the edge of to thing that "I sounded my horn" construction in this state which will water, is then passed, and the and towering all around it; to an is a good defence to any charge take motorists through the Sierras highway continues on through the additional height of 3000 feet, too, I the grass verge. Then
and into huge forests of redwoods. Feather River, region, past Don-majestic mountains
ner Lake, and along the Truckee meet the one who, when another brought against them.
nighty peaks. driver signals that he wants to
The new highway will run a River to incomparable Lake Tahoe, pass, necelerates and tries to get
length of 800 miles through terri-
Jewel of Water tory, almost virgin, and under away.
towering mountains whose tops are snow covered."
In passing cyclists give them plenty of room. You never know what they are going to do, and a foot or so may make all the difference. It is certainly all the difference between courtesy and bad manners.
Sinners Still. There is not a driving sin that a dozen I do not see committed times in a week. Two years ago, If you are approaching a road however, I should have had to say obstruction and other vehicles a hundred times in the same are held up waiting for you to period.
pass, accelerate and get the All the advice that can be given passing over with the minimum of to the new motorist has been re- delay. Some drivers seem to take peated many times by myself and pleasure in slowing down in such by many another, but it is only circumstances,
The Sierra Way was planned and designed by the Forest Service to connect up National Park sections in the state. About 50 per cont of it is now completed to current major highway standards, and the remainder is expected to be finish- ed before long..
con-
And when you! The new highway starts at the by constant reiteration of the have made up your mind to pass base of Mount Shasta, after leav-
signalled ing U. S. Highway 99, It maxims of the road that the another car and have general spread of that knowledge your intention, put your foot down, tinues along the range of Sierras, timbered land where. which brings improvement can be and pass quickly.. Don't shilly-through achieved. The whole subject shally and then, after making ahould a motorist desire, a short boils down to a single golden rule: several tentative bites at it, go by trip into the backwoods can Behave towards every other road at a mile an hour faster than the made to see logging and milling user, whether awheel or on foot, other car. That is bad mannern, operations.
as you would like him to act if the dangerous, and stamps the driver positions were reversed.
It is no more difficult to drive:
a modern motor-car than to walk
as a nervous noviće.
Be Sure: Then Go.
you
rapidly along a crowded pavement. Make up your mind what
All the driver has to do is to are going to do on all occasions and then do it. But don't make pay attention to the rond ELTU keep out of trouble. He must con-up your mind until you are sure It centrate on the road, and he is safe. If you only think you can get through a gap in the should, where possible, keep a hundred yards of it in view. Many traffic, don't try the few seconds now drivers keep their eyes glued last will not matter. If you are on the road ten er fifteen yards insure you can do it, then go ahead front of the car, and anything and don't fool about.
that is happening farther away Don't be too insistent on your comes as a shock when they reach rights. You may have the right the spot. If you do as I suggest of way, but the other fellow who you will never be caught napping, declines to give way may be oven because the hundred-yarda view less experienced than yourself. gives you plenty of time to pull Or he may be a road-hog and it will be very small satisfaction to you or to your insurance company to know that you were involved in a accident through being right!
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The Possibilities of Rubber.
In California Backwoods
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Ever climbing and descending, the highway continues on to Lake Britton and across Pit River on a huge concrete dam bullt to create electric power for metropolitan centres miles away.
From land of virgin timber, the highway runs into a land of strik- devastated aren ing contrasta caused by moulten lava flowing from Mount Lassen volcano dur- ing its last cruption.
Then into Mount Lassen Vol- canic National Park. The highway reaches an elevation of about 8000 feet in the park and, from this
mudguarde, soft rubber ends to shaped and stiff enough to retain under wind pressure the desired contour, yet sufficiently pilable to compress, when a guard strikes any object,
if
There would be no worry about enamel chipping off as on meta! wings, for rubber guards, practicable, could be easily made of coloured rubber of any shade. Bumper-bara, while affording a certain degree of protection to cars from front and back col- lisions, do not, judging from the cars one eces in the streets, alawys' prevent guards from injury.
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Judging by the number of Sattered, bont and crumpled mud
ards seen on cars, there is room
The most vulnerably part of a "ur improvement in driving on the part of many motorists. No doubt car is undoubtedly the mudguards,
and the battered appearanco most of the damage in the result so many points to the need of not of contact with gate posts, garage only more care on the part of walls, etc., and an outcome of many motor drivers, but also in- minor collisions when parking or dicates the opening there is for the use of more suitable material than In congested road traffic.
Is at present used in the Whatever the cause, nothing looks struction of mudguards.
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tho unsightly or spoils
Rubber guards appears to offer a appearance of a smart car than solution, bu, nothing has yet been the crumpled up onds of mudgards.commercially achieved in that direction. It would be interesting Considering the great strides made in the use of rubber in the to know whether it is for want of tssembly of the modern car, from trying, or because the problem windscreen rubber to shock absor- cannot be solved. by the means hers and engine bearers, It is sur suggested, that no move has been prising that some methed has not made towards evolving a non
dintable mudguardando yet boon evolved of incorporating lepenky Shaky
Here is a jewel of the mountains that is worth any man's time to
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A series of national parks arò then encountered--Yosemite, Gen- eral Grant and Sequoia. The park ing scenic grandeur le had juul From Lake Tahoe the Sierra before the highway connects with Vay continues through forests, U. S. Highway 90. It ambles to the fertile Carson Valley, and along the Kern River and meets the inally crosses the summit of the highway at Bakersfeld
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